Tampa Bay’s Brandon Hagel takes a shot while defended by Bruins center Elias Lindholm during the second period Thursday night in Tampa, Fla. Chris O’Meara/Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. — Brayden Point reached 600 career points with a power-play goal, Andrei Vasilevskiy made 27 saves, and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Boston Bruins 4-1 on Thursday night.
Brandon Hagel had a goal and an assist, Michael Eyssimont and Anthony Cirelli scored goals 5:03 apart in the second period, and Ryan McDonagh had two assists.
Tampa Bay has won back-to-back games after dropping four in a row. The Lightning moved past the Bruins into third place in the Atlantic Division.
Mason Lohrei scored for Boston, and Jeremy Swayman made 27 saves. The Bruins are 0-5-1 in their last six.
Takeaways
Bruins: Lohrei became the first Boston defenseman to score since Dec. 3. … The Bruins have gone eight games without a power-play goal.
Lightning: Ryan McDonagh got his 400th career point on Cirelli’s short-handed goal. Tampa Bay has eight short-handed goals this season.
Key moment
With the second period winding down, Nick Paul bounced a pass off the boards in the neutral zone to Mikey Eyssimont, who skated unchecked into the Boston zone and put a wrist shot from the left faceoff dot past Swayman to make it 2-0.
Key stat
Tampa Bay is 16-3-1 when scoring four or more goals.
Up next
Both teams are back in action Saturday. The Bruins are at Florida, and the Lightning are at New Jersey.
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